Photo: Jesus' Tomb Claim Slammed By Scholars

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Israel Antiquities Authority curator Debora Benami stands on February 27, 2007, among dozens of ossuaries—or burial boxes—found over the years in Jerusalem. The artifacts are housed in a storage warehouse in Bet Shemesh, Israel.

Archaeologists and religious scholars have slammed a new movie's claim that ossuaries found in a Jerusalem tomb held the remains of Jesus, his wife, and their son.

Photograph by Kevin Frayer/AP

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